Alumni Research Talks 
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(BITS Pilani 2005)

Co-founder of Onward Assist, Lecturer at Columbia University.

Vikas has worked for over fifteen years in the industry for fortune 500 companies such as Roche/ Genentech, Qualcomm, HP Labs, NVIDIA and MERL. on several machine learning and computer vision R&D projects and products. In academia, Vikas has been a researcher at multiple universities, as well as served as adjunct faculty for data science and machine learning courses. Vikas has published over 75 papers, and has been granted 15 patents.

Date: January 24th, 2021

Time: 11:30 AM IST

(BITS Pilani 2013)

Senior Research Scientist at Spotify, London.

Rishabh Mehrotra is an industry researcher, working as a senior research scientist at Spotify Research in London. Having completed his PhD in Machine Learning from University College London, he works on ML techniques used for recommendations in online marketplaces. He graduated from BITS in 2013 and has spent time at Microsoft Research during his PhD, besides working briefly at Goldman Sachs in 2013.

Date: January 24th, 2021

Time: 7 PM IST

(BITS Pilani 1984)

Global Artificial Intelligence Lead at PwC

Anand Rao is currently Global Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Lead (Data & Analytics) & Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), USA. Previously, he had done his Ph.D. in the area of Artificial Intelligence from University of Sydney in 1988 and thereafter graduated with Distinction in MBA in Finance & Technology from Melbourne Business School, Australia in 1997. Dr. Anand has also co-edited four books on Intelligent Agents and has published over fifty papers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in major journals, conferences, and workshops.

Date: January 25th, 2021

Time: 7 PM IST